217 Vance Street
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HOUSE
1932-1948
NR nomination: Two-story symmetrical frame house with side-gabled roof and replacement siding.
In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with asbestos siding, six-over-six wood-sash windows, and an interior brick chimney. The four-light-over-four-panel door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch with an arched ceiling supported by grouped square posts. There are two windows in each gable and near-full-width shed-roofed dormers on the façade and rear elevation. County tax records date the house to 1947.
SECONDARY HOUSE
post-1948
One-and-a-half-story side-gabled frame secondary house with near-full-width, shed-roofed dormers, asbestos siding, and six-over-six and eight-over-eight wood-sash windows. The building is visible from the rear of 206 University. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.
SOURCES: Kaye Graybeal, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: West Chapel Hill Historic District, Orange County OR1439 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 1998); Heather Slane and Cheri Szcodronski, 2015 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.
